Windows 10: Notepad and mspaint not working

Hi,


I have a brand new computer 1 week old

And everything should be up to date. I have windows 10


Now, when I try to open paint I get the message "Unable to create document",

and when I try to open notepad, nothing happens.


What I've tried:


1. Opening txt files and images and saying "open with..."

2. Running SFC through cmd on admin mode. It told me it repaired some corrupted files, but it's still not working

3. Virus scan nothing was found


I hope someone can help, I really need this mostly notepad for my work

:)

 

Windows 10 Character Map and Notepad

Well I found the answer to my question. I should have thought through this a little longer.

Notepad is native in ANSI mode.
However Wordpad can work in UTF-8 mode.
I found steps to make Notepad usable in UTF-8 mode but there are a lot of steps and once again there has to be a registry hack to make it work.
Now how do I make Workpad be listed in the most used application through the Start Menu?

 

Notepad

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. Appreciate your interest in using Windows 10.

I suggest you to follow the steps provided below:

• Open Task Manager. Here’s a tip: press CTRL+SHIFT+ESC.
• Click on Startup tab.
• Select Notepad from the list and click on Disable.

Hope the information is helpful. Feel free to write to us
for any other assistance with Windows, we’ll be glad to assist you.

 

Notepad

I followed your suggestion but wasn't able to find Notepad listed on the startup. There are some listed as program but don't know which ones it could be.